Scarce, small black and white portrait-- measuring about 3 x 4.5 inches-- which she had printed up for fans and then hand-trimmed herself, boldly signed and inscribed in black felt-tip pen in the early 1980s. In good condition, beyond the odd size. Natalie Schafer, unforgettable character actress of the stage and screen, excelled at playing society women or elegant, fashionable elitists, most memorably Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell on T.V.'s "Gilligan's Island" (1964-1967).  Her many other film and T.V. credits include the fantasy flicks The Body Disappears (1941) and Wonder Man (1945), the underrated James Cagney gem The Time of Your Life (1948), The Snake Pit (1948), and Anastasia (1956).

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